- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women Quotes
On confidence, identity and being true to yourself.
These quotes discuss women's confidence and identity from a few angles: resisting pressure to act a certain way, and the discipline shown by women serving alongside men in the military. For related reflections, see our Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historically, black women have suffered tremendously, but today's black women are the triumph. We have choices, and that's what freedom is all about: having the power to choose.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
We women feel we are here to serve. That's the mistake we make. We may have children, husbands, lovers, bills, responsibility. Those things don't own us, but too often we let them.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn't be worried about beauty.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of women have been whistle-blowers in the past, and a lot of them have just gotten torn down and treated terribly. One of the things that kept popping up was this idea that if you do whistle-blow about sexual harassment, then that is what will define the rest of your life.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When women are angry at men, they call them heartless. When men are angry at women, they call them crazy. Sometimes it doesn't stop there.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020